Questions, Answers & Tips -
If you are modeling contemporary passenger cars with simpli-
fied rubber-tube diaphragms, sections of heat-shrink tubing
can be measured, cut to fit, and fastened in place.
– MRH
Switch lists
Q.
My buddy wants to operate his railroad using switch lists.
Not being a railroader, this is all new to me. Where can I learn
how to use them, and what do they look like?
A.
This is kind of a loaded question. He may be talking about
using the correct real-life railroad form for the job, or he may
be talking about using a specific software program that tracks
and creates car movements. An article in the October 2013
Model Railroad Hobbyist
talked about using the JMRI programs
4
4: These Bachmann Branchline UK cars have a fixed
diaphragm at each end that allows a gap to show in the
corridor connections of passenger trains.
MRH-Dec 2013
